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DESTROY OLYMPICS 2004

2004
DESTROY OLYMPICS 2004

LET THE OLYMPIC GAMES DIE IN THE LAND THEY WERE BORN


"There is no doubt that we are entering a police-state situation and we will have to learn to live with this. (...) If necessary, even the stadiums will be guarded by the army"

Jacques Rogge, president of the international olympic committee, November 26, 2003


In times of war for the imposition of global domination, where the bosses proceed to inter-state coalitions and capitalist completions, coordinating their raids in the name of "anti"terrorism to establish totalitarian control and the pillage of the world...

In times of an all-out attack against the peoples of the so-called "third world", whose genocide from starvation and diseases and their enslavement in the dungeons of mass production-colonies of the multinationals nourish the "developed" world's well-being; whose death during the new order's crusades and under military occupation, their confinement in concentration camps and the attempts to neutralize their resistance have become the foundation stone for the security of domination's projects...

In times of intensified exploitation, surveillance and repression for the excluded and those who resist within the metropolitan walls...

...The olympic games are a front-window of capitalism and domination itself. An advertisement of the world of class slavery and of the subsequent police and military means to impose it. A global-range gala, sealing in one more level the cooperation of the local bosses with multinational corporations, international political staffs and agencies of repression.

For the greek state, a participant in the criminal coalition that is launching the global terror-war, the olympic games are a step to upgrade its role in the world's elite, to strengthen its pre-eminent position in the Balkans, as well as the spearhead for its attack against the exploited and the oppressed within its territory. An attack to be continued after the new confirmation of the parliamentary dictatorship through the fraud of elections on the 7th of March.

Everyday it is becoming obvious that the olympic games are not just a sports event lasting a few days, but a permanent process, signifying a new era of repression and social control.

In the name of accomplishing the Grand Idea, the "ideals" of profit are praised by the bosses: the companies, contractors and state officials who handle the huge 2004 budgets. In this giant commercial enterprise, the proletarians are labeled as the "volunteers" to pay its cost by being robbed through the taxes, the expensiveness and wage freeze, but also to pay its price: speeding up the rhythms of work, in extremely dangerous conditions, with their own blood in working "accidents". The human sacrifices of local and immigrant workers in the altar of profit and of the bonuses given for the fast termination of the Works, have taken nightmarish dimensions in the olympic construction sites where hundreds of workers die and get seriously injured. A new model of absolute exploitation and expendable humans is consolidated in the olympic works, to characterize from now on the conditions of labor in every other site of wage slavery.

At the same time, as the Games offer a unique opportunity for capitalist looting, the natural environment is plundered and destroyed, while the urban landscape is redeveloped according to the new norms of commercialization and surveillance of public spaces.

The local version of the global terror-war is being established trough the colossal operation "safe olympic games", including:

- the collaboration of "anti"-terrorist specialists from greek, US, british, israeli and australian secret services,

- military exercises by greek and foreign mercenaries belonging to special forces of the police and the army (with dominant participation the one of the US), based on "pre-emptive action" and "management of disproportionate threats" scenarios,

- spying military aircrafts flying over the city,

- the use of NATO's "security systems",

- mass imports of modern weapons and

- the installation on a large scale of technologically advanced equipment monitoring public spaces and persons, such as the C41 system developed by the american multinational SAIC (a company providing know-how, infrastructure and armament for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq).

Hundreds of surveillance cameras are being placed, forbidden "red zones" are instituted and in the streets the death squads of a police occupation army are loose. During the olympics, 50.000 soldiers will be under "high alert" and every demonstration or working strike will be forbidden. Through these orgiastic preparations, the repressive apparatus is upgraded, and the new police role of the army in the confrontation of the "internal enemy" is being promoted. The "zero tolerance" doctrine against any expression of social and class dissidence is rooting and the operations against "illegal" immigrants are intensified.

The olympics are proclaimed "matter of national interest" and their safety becomes the ideological vehicle for an accelerated imposition of a State of Emergency (not only for the period before and during the games, but mainly for the period which follows, where the intensification of social struggles is anticipated). For the implementation of methods and conditions that are either way considered as priorities for modernizing state terrorism. Within this situation, "court-martials" are set, such as the one that accomplished its mission recently inside Koridallos prison, imposing to those accused as "November 17" members exterminative sentences of political convenience, and the one that will take place on February 9 against the five accused for participation in E.L.A (Revolutionary Popular Struggle). These are trials aiming at having the institution of "independent justice" legalize all "anti"terrorist commandos operations, the tortures and confinement in "white cells", the snitches and the pogrom against the dissidents of terror-democracy. Participation is social resistance and solidarity with persecuted fighters is criminalized, while many of them remain literally hostages awaiting trials, like the arrested in the demonstration against the EU summit in Thessaloniki.

The greek state signs international "anti"terrorist acts and treaties allowing the extradition of social fighters to the global gendarme (USA), and takes part in the establishment of a european Task Force committed to chase anarchists. Officials of the "anti"terrorist agencies from the 7 countries participating in this Force met in January and examined specifically the issue of Athens olympics, while introducing the concept of "struggle against anarchist terrorism" for reasons of preemptive repression and preparing the ground for suppressing any social resistance.

The olympics, as the bosses' Grand Idea, propagandized by the whole spectrum of the authoritarian system (political parties, financial institutions and the Media) is a contemporary ideological machine to extract social consent, consisting of the most conservative figures, such as nationalism, to the most modern "values" of consumerism and "voluntary" offer of unpaid labor in the service of the bosses.

We do not forget that, here as much as globally, the excess of multi-advertised means, mechanisms and methods of repression the state and capital are getting armed with, as well as their intimidating campaign, reflect also their insecurity caused by existent and imminent social explosions. They reflect the failure they taste in their effort to present their domination as indisputable and totally invulnerable, when all over the world there are struggles and revolts bursting against globalization of exploitation and oppression, against war and capitalist peace.

Today, the olympics concentrate the state's effort to deepen its authority in society, repressing all those resisting its plans. But this campaign is not adequate to instill fear, discourage and deter the multiform expressions of social and class struggle. On the contrary, it is a condition highlighting the necessity to intensify and spread this struggle in every front the bosses are opening with their aggression and in every front they try to close to their account.

We antagonize the projects of the growing commercialization and surveillance of public spaces, reclaiming them and transforming them to spaces of resistance. We sabotage social peace. We resist against the "anti"terrorist war inside and outside the borders. We stand in solidarity with political prisoners and persecuted social fighters. We act together with all those revolting against the dictatorship of the State and Capital.

REKINDLE SOCIAL AND CLASS WAR

DESTROY THE BOSSES' GRAND IDEA


Open Assembly of Anarchists-Antiauthoritarians
Athens, January 2004
 
 

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